Lives of the English Poets: A Selection |
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... poet till he has attained the whole extension of his language , distinguished all the delicacies of phrase , and all the colours of words , and learned to adjust their different sounds to all the varieties of metrical modulation . Bossu ...
... poet till he has attained the whole extension of his language , distinguished all the delicacies of phrase , and all the colours of words , and learned to adjust their different sounds to all the varieties of metrical modulation . Bossu ...
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... Poet - His first Verses - His Panegyric on Cromwell - His Poem on the Restoration - His first Play- Revival of the Drama - Heroic Plays with Rhyme - Becomes a constant Writer for the Stage - Made Poet Laureate His Controversy with ...
... Poet - His first Verses - His Panegyric on Cromwell - His Poem on the Restoration - His first Play- Revival of the Drama - Heroic Plays with Rhyme - Becomes a constant Writer for the Stage - Made Poet Laureate His Controversy with ...
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... poet , though it now appears more susceptible of embellishments , more adapted to exalt the ideas , and affect the passions , than many of those which have hitherto been thought most worthy of the ornaments of verse . The settlement of ...
... poet , though it now appears more susceptible of embellishments , more adapted to exalt the ideas , and affect the passions , than many of those which have hitherto been thought most worthy of the ornaments of verse . The settlement of ...
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Absalom and Achitophel acquaintance Addison Æneid afterwards appears blank verse censure character considered conversation Cowley criticism death declared delight desire diction diligence Dryden Dunciad Earl easily elegance endeavoured English excellence expected faults favour friends genius Georgics happy honour Iliad images imagination imitation John Dryden John Wain Johnson kind King knew known labour language Latin learning letter lines lived Lord Lord Bolingbroke Lord Halifax mentioned metaphysical poets Milton mind nature neglected never NIHIL numbers observed occasion once opinion Paradise Lost passions performance perhaps Pindar play pleasing pleasure poem poet poetical poetry Pope Pope's praise produced published Queen reader reason received remarks reputation resentment rhyme Samuel Johnson satire Savage says seems sentiments solicited sometimes sufficient supposed Swift Syphax Tatler thought told tragedy translation truth Tyrconnel verses Virgil virtue write written wrote